Tuesday Dialogue #5 - Jack Taylor, The Therapist & Maggie Taylor

Jack Taylor (George Clooney) is having a nightmare day. His job is in jeopardy, his career is on the line, and he's stuck with his daughter for the day. To make matters worse, he's met a woman, Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer), who is a "real piece of work".

There's only one way to make sense of it all. Go see your therapist. Things get a bit complicated due to his daughter being with him - hence Jack and the therapist are forced to talk in code. 

JACK

She, um, she just drops of the uh uh, bag of cookies and tells me to keep them for a week.

THERAPIST

How do you feel about the cookies Jack?

JACK

Love the cookies, have a big problem with the um, uh..

THERAPIST

Cookie maker?

JACK

That's right. 'Cause the cookie maker thinks that all I'm interested in, or all I'm capable of handling with respect to the cookie in question is uh--

THERAPIST

Is the frosting?

JACK

Exactly, exactly.

(pause)

And just because the frosting is my speciality doesn't mean that I can't do more. I have many layers to me. And they're not all vanilla, either. I have chocolate in me. I have a deep dark chocolate--

MAGGIE

I'm still hungry Daddy.

JACK

But, uh-- I'm sorry, Doc Martin and I are finishing--

MAGGIE

But what about the cookies?

JACK

Just a little while, okay? ----- It's uh, I'm uh, I'm sick of angry, resentful, uh------ fish, who uh think that you, that you owe them, but who won't trust you for a second to do anything for them.

THERAPIST

There are other fish in the sea, Jack.

JACK

Yes, I know. It's just I, I wish I could find a fish who wasn't afraid of my dark chocolate layer, and she'd have to love my cookie too. Y'know, I think that my ex-cookie maker has turned me off to fish entirely. I met a real piece of work this morning.

THERAPIST

Tell me about her Jack.

JACK

This fish was a fox. She had her own cookie too. What a female dog. She shoved her fish in my face.

THERAPIST

In front of the cookie? What's she doing with another fish anyway? She AC/DC?

JACK

What you talking about?

THERAPIST

Fish with other fish, in front of cookies.

JACK

Fish? Fish fish.

THERAPIST

Oh. I see.